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    One Damn Thing After Another
    One Damn Thing After Another
    One Damn Thing After Another
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    One Damn Thing After Another

    By Tim Hall

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    One Damn Thing After An­other builds on the themes of word contagion and weaponized memes that the author explored in his previous book, 2009’s How America Died. Many of the char­acters in these stories have like­wise been sickened by language: they exchange psychotic emails, adopt covert online personas, write fictitious book reviews and preach the authoritarian philoso­phies of Ayn Rand, oblivious to the harm they might be doing to themselves or others.

    A scholar and a dropout clash in “The Condition.” Fact and fic­tion blur in “Drunken Fantasies, Vol. 1” as the author takes readers on a painfully funny tour through the insanity of his own booze-fueled grandiosity. For those who remain undeterred by these warn­ings, the author has also included a supplement that shows readers “How To Be An Underground Lit Legend” by employing many of the same tactics.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOW Press
    Release dateJan 28, 2011
    One Damn Thing After Another
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    Tim Hall

    Tim Hall began publishing his stories in 1995. From 1999-2004 he was a contributing writer for NY Press, and in 2005 started his own publishing company, Undie Press (http://www.undiepress.com).He is the author of two novels (Half Empty and Full Of It), two collections of stories (Triumph of the Won't and One Damn Thing After Another) and a nonfiction essay about weaponized memes and word-contagion, How America Died.His work is highly personal and journalistic, focusing mainly on the struggles and occasional madness of the artistic life and those who inhabit its lower regions. He does not shy away from the darker elements of life, and will describe graphic sex, drugs, or drinking with the same reportorial precision that he uses to examine his own missteps on the road to becoming a writer.The prose is generally fast-paced, conversational, and marked by absurd or unexpected humor. The author has cited P.G. Wodehouse and Preston Sturges as major influences--but he still believes that, when it comes to sheer belly laughs, nobody can beat Kafka.A native of New York City, Hall currently lives in a small town in northeastern Illinois--and yes, the winters are indeed cold there.

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      One Damn Thing After Another - Tim Hall

      One Damn Thing After Another

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      Tim Hall

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      One Damn Thing After Another

      © 2010 by Tim Hall

      http://www.TimHallBooks.com

      Published by Outsider Writers Press

      http://www.OutsiderWriters.org

      The author would like to thank the editors of the following publications where some of these stories first appeared: Further Notes On The Impossibility of Everything in This Zine Will Change Your Life; Michael Estrada, World’s Greatest Internet Author in Chicago Reader; How To Be An Underground Lit Legend in 1000th Monkey; San Diego Sutra at Act-i-vate.com; Drunken Fantasies, Vol. 1 in BIGnews; Beta Version in The New York Hangover. Atlas Hugged and The Condition are previously unpublished.

      The author would also like to thank the following individuals for their kind support and encouragement: Pat King and Caleb Ross at Outsider Writers; Ken Wohlrob, Brian Cogan, and Mike Faloon; Mark Cashion; my amazing fellow writers in the Chicago literary scene: Ben Tanzer, Jason Behrends, Amy Guth, Mary Hamilton, Linsday Hunter, Jil Summers, Jonathan Messinger and Zach Dodson; Dean Haspiel and the crew at Act-i-vate.com; Scott MacClanahan; Chris Pearson, Jen Ferguson, David DeRosa and Jennifer Hayden; the two loves of my life, Mary and George; my teachers and advisors at DePaul University, especially John Kimsey and Carol Hease.

      Cove Image: Chris Pearson, Paper Gorilla (2009) - http://www.chrispearsonorigami.com

      Produced in the United States of America

      by Main Street Rag Publishing Company

      http://www.MainStreetRag.com

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      Michael Estrada, World’s Greatest Internet Author

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      Atlas Hugged

      The Condition

      San Diego Sutra

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      How To Be An Underground Lit Legend

      Further Notes on the Impossibility of Everything

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      He stood at the window, appreciating the gray.

      Maybe he should have taken Jamie home after all. It was hard to know the right thing to do. She’d had a few drinks at the office party and was hanging on his arm, saying, I love you, I love you, I love you. Bigger tragedies had started better.

      If it’s too late for me to be pure, he had thought at the time, maybe there’s still a chance I can be noble. He got in a cab and left. Now she was dating a guy in the IT department.

      He went to the computer and logged on. There were several emails waiting for him. The first was from Jonah.

      You said the book would be published in mid-October and it is now November. YOU LIED. You promised we would tour the country by car to promote the book. YOU LIED. Instead of working on my book until it was done like you were supposed to you went on vacation for a week. YOU LIED.

      He wrote back: Jonah, there’s some kind of misunderstanding. I went on vacation after the book was finished. The book was delayed at the printer, it should be here any day. I never promised that we would tour the country, I said that it was something I would like to do if possible. And why can’t I take a vacation if I want?

      The next email was from his mother: I haven’t gotten a check from you yet this month. Oh well, I guess you’re not sending one after all. I’ll find some way of getting by. Maybe I can borrow money from Marylou or Geoffrey again. Thanks anyway.

      Mom, he typed, I sent the check on the 1st of the month. It is now only the 3rd. Please give it another day or so.

      Jonah had written back: YOU HAVE REALLY PISSED ME OFF NOW! SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND! IF YOU DON’T SEND ME SOME BOOKS IMMEDIATELY I WILL KILL YOU!

      He replied: Jonah, you’re crazy. Stop it. Don’t threaten me again or I’m reporting you to the police.

      He wrote to the printer: Please cancel my order. You were supposed to have the book for me two months

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